Kurdish MP accuses some sides of distorting Kirkuk demonstrations

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) MP Khalid Shwani of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan accused some sides, without naming them, of attempting to distort the popular demonstrations in Kirkuk.

Shwani told Iraqi News (IraqiNews.com) “Certain sides are no longer trust the Sunni leaders in Kirkuk for their inability to defend the demonstrators’ rights and their demands therefore they try to turn the approach of those protests into Kurdish-Arab struggle.”

Security sources in Kirkuk province have reported that “Dijla Operations Command prevented the cars from getting in Hawija district since last Friday moring in anticipation of launching demonstrations similar to those witnessed in some Iraqi cities.